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ORIGINS OF THE STRONG RELATIONS BETWEEN ITALY AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
During World War II, invading armies from twenty countries passed through the territory of the Italian
peninsula. The world was then rearranged. The Dominican Republic was one of the member countries of the
United Nations in 1945. Italy joined the world body after it changed its form of state organization. The Italian
Republic was created by plebiscite in 1946 and proclaimed its new constitution in 1948.
Thereafter, relations between the new Italian Republic and the Dominican Republic were completely
normalized, including at the level of extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassadors. This can also be seen
in the 1950s, when groups of Italian technicians and engineers and workers began to gradually arrive in the
Dominican Republic from post-war reconstruction Italy, in the various agreements signed between the two
states, and in the stable diplomatic missions that have prevailed over the course of seventy years.
1963 to the Present
Importantly, relations between Italy and the Dominican Republic, both in terms of governments and people,
have increased steadily over the course of the past six decades.
It should be noted that the Archive of the Office of the President of the Italian Republic holds a number
of interesting documents, such as those related to the first visit to Italy by a Dominican president. This visit
pertains to President-elect Juan Bosch, who, accompanied by his wife, was received with all the honors of a
head of State in January 1963 by the Italian president, Antonio Segni. Bosch was elected on December 20, 1962,
Ambassador Andrea
Canepari greets
President Danilo
Medina during his visit
to Italian President
Sergio Mattarella, at the
Quirinal Palace, Rome,
February 13, 2019.
© Press Office
of the Presidency of the
Italian Republic